The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-01
NEWS AND OTHER NOTiNGS.

stTa.Shtesi IL the world. A straight line can
be drawn through it for seventy-iye miles
withOu; touching shore.
-There is 4 cute Yankee IN an Illinois
town who plants sun flower SEED in every
hill OF psans. The stalk serves for bean
pole, while the seed is utilized for chicken
feed
/ j I'm EngburY. twenty-five years OLD
/ qua:rriled with his mother in BROOKLYN on
Monday last. He drew pistol, flied three
shots into her left breast aud then shot
/ himsuh in the abdomen. Both are NOR
tally wounded.
Tine JoYRd1 do COmeIcio, OF Rio Janeiro
Says that hemp farm in Brazil seven
( large monkeys have been taught to cut hemp
and prepare it for sale. Tney work more
! quickly than negroes and the cost of feeding
/ the animals is ;rif.ng
-Dau Rice, of Cincinnati the veteran
/ Snowman, Who had seen seventy three sum-
mers come ana go, has just led TO the altar
/ and wed Mrs. e NJ. Robinson, aged forty
I five, one of the wealthiest ranch owners in
Lavaca county, Texas.
Winfield Scott, nephew of. the famous
} General Wiafi-Id Scott, and a leader in
! Virginia society, was dangerously stabbed
! III the neck and body by a gambler named
! Levy, in a house OF vile repute in Richmond.
{ on Sunday night Levy was beating the
{ propIietress OF the den, and Scott interfered
! in her behalf.
Among the veterans of the Mexican war
who celebrated toe anniversary OF PaIo Alto
at San FrhnciscO recently was c. ID. O'Kelly
who is so years old, and As a vetesan of the
Texan war of independence. He was
comrade Of Sam Houston aud Davy Crock
ett, and he bore the news of the fall of the
Alamo TO New Orleans
"A Territorial editor says in bis paper
! Yesterday we were again married. 1t will
be remembered that both of our former
wives elOpad with the foreman OF the Office
To avoid any further Inconvenience of the
kind We have this time married lady who
/ is herself 4 composition. and she will set the
+ type while We hustle for the ducks who owe
subscription"
In Birmingham, Ala, the other day, six
/ buxom widows, entire strangers TO eacn
/ other. filed intoths astonished county clerks
/ ONCE early in the morning and applied for
/ the necessary licenses to wed. They all
answered the usual quest ions satisfactorily
and after obtaining ths documents left in
/ search of persons legally authorized to per
4 form the ceremony.
! Among the pensions recently granted
/ was one to Mrs. Rrandon, aged II. of Noun ds
vile, W. Va. II is related OF her that she
raised 81 children, % of them men, and of
/ the latter 10 served in the Union army dur
: ing the war. o ne son was killed at Pitts
! burg Lending and one died in Anderson
| vile, while every son OF the remaining II
was wounded in enPagem ents.
--Advices from Ringgold, Georgia, say
that two men named Dennis and Clark
/ living near that place, quaTrelled over the
result Of a lawsuit, and Dennis cut CIark's
I throat. Clark's brother then attacked
: Dennis and received dangerous wound,
, and when the father of Clark rushed into
Z the fIay, be was stabbed to death 1t is not
/ stated what became of Dennis.
Much excitement was caused at Flush
/ ing, y. Y. on last Saturday night, by the
/ ducking of Charles Doscher. a respectable
married man, in the basin of the village
( fountain by four men who are supposed to
/ be members Of the Vigilance Committee
I This organization " as formed for the pun
ishment by ducklng of any married man
J found out after eleven O'Clock unaccompa-
MED by his wife.
/ Mrs. jacob y. Reese. wife of a wealthy
7 farmer living near the river Ssyx, in Medina
county, Ohio, was pursued by ferOcious bull
| as she attempted to cross a meadow. Her
/ screams for help brought friends to the
/ scene. but just as she got to the fence where
/ her friends were ready to help her over, the
/ savage brute tossed her in the air and she
/ fell on the other side OF the fence dead from
/ shock and fright.
Shortly before 3 O'Clock on last Sunday
morning, fire broke out in the large packing
house of the Chicago Packing and Provision
! Company at the Union Stock Yards. The
/ building and 900 live hogs and nearly Is,
/ 900 barrels of mess pork in storage house.
owned by Armour * Co., were destoyed.
/ The loss Of the packing company is $3.50, 900,
! and the loss to Armour & Co. is S4OO 600
( Both firms are fully insured.
I Jim POunce, of ST. Augustine. Florida
! going through the woods beard tremendous
{ squawls, yells and Ioars, and cautiously
/ investigating came upon a seven-foot
panther fighting with an alligator which
had the panther fast in its ponderous Jaws
Pounce sided with the under dog and shot
the alligator, wheTeupon the panther, free
. ing himself made fer the hunter, who had a
hard fight before he killed the ungrateful
animal
Among the visitors at the Vassar Col
lege commencement was a graduate who
has made $4,000 in unique manner
Upon Der graduation she was promised by
her father 81 for every cent she earned by
working. al anything. She accepted the
offer, and entering a factory, whore she
. obtained Sc a week, kept on working until
her father had paid her $40, 900 and broke
the contract, because his little iok. was
becoming 200 costly.
The Chicago Times on Saturday last
printed reports of crop conditions collected
from over 1000 points in the Northwest
The general prospects for wheat are favor
able; there is largely increased average,
/ especially in Dakota, ana the aggregate
yield in the Northwest promises to be the
largest ever known. The outlook for corn
very good. There will short crops of timo-
thy and flaxseed, and the barley crop also
threatens to be partial failure
The annual consumption of feathers in
this country for bedding purposes amounts
TO 1000, 600 pounds or 275 carloads To
furnish this 5000, 600 healthy cease must
( give up their feathers in year. The geese
I furnishing thasR dnwDy piIloyrS and hadS ~